Indiana · Nonprofit
INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC
INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,161,595 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Indianapolis Film Project Inc does
Mission
The mission of indianapolis film project and the kan-kan cinema is to exhibit high quality films; to entertain and educate people from all backgrounds; and to inspire conversation and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As an artistic and cultural medium, film connects people across multiple social spectrums. The organization makes that connection and executes its vision at the kan-kan cinema, a 3-screen arthouse theater it owns and operates on the city's near eastside. At the kan-kan cinema, the organization serves the local community and wider city audiences with an ever-changing mix of independent cinema, film & arts education, panel-led conversations of social importance, new works from local and regional filmmakers, film-based presentations by other area not-for-profits and other community-based events. Many of the films shown at the kan-kan never appear in indianapolis-area commercial cinemas. The organization's films cross every genre and include documentaries, classic and international films. Additionally, the organization exhibits films in other communities lacking theatrical venues and supports other not-for-profit artistic activities in its local community. More broadly, the organization seeks to create a safe and welcoming space for shared experiences while sparking audience and community conversations.
$1,179,478 spent$776,795 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,179,478.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.3M to $5.8M (−8%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Samuel B Sutphin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $230k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 45% · 2021 80% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC?
- INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,161,595 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,161,595 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC?
- Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS FILM PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing